Fixing to Help

06/16/2026

This can't end well for anybody - the cats or the community. 😢

If you --
✅ need help paying for a spay/neuter of your family cat or dog
✅ live in Onondaga County
✅ have a verifiable low income
☎️ call Fixing to Help. 315-729-8691

We may be able to cut your copay cost to:
$25 - male cat
$35 - female cat
$40 - male dog
$50 - small female dog
$60 - large female dog
💥 Nearly half of our pets qualify for a very low $5 copay!

All appointments include:
👍 Brief pre-op exam
👍 Spay or neuter
👍 Rabies and combo distemper vaccinations
👍 Flea treatment, ear cleaning, and nail trim (love that nail trim!)
👍 Take-home pain meds

Please call - we'd love to help caring pet owner like you!

(If you want to share, please cut and paste this information into your share. Thank you!)

06/16/2026

💝 Friday, June 26th, from 6 - 7 p.m. (while supplies last)

06/15/2026

Tuesday's going to be a bee-yoo-tee-ful day to go Bark in the Park!!!

Look for us!

06/15/2026

🚫 The June 18th rabies clinic scheduled to be held in Camillus has been canceled.

👍 The next Onondaga County Health Department FREE rabies clinic will be held:
* Thursday, July 16
* 5 - 7 p.m.
* Town of Dewitt Community Room
* 148 Sanders Creek Pkwy., E. Syracuse

Make an online appointment today at:
https://ochdrabiesclinic.as.me/schedule/d0ede0db/appointment/31137429

Walk-ins and donations are welcome. We will post reminders as the day draws near. Stay tuned.

Please share!

06/14/2026

This bears repeating. 👇

Fixing to Help provides heavy duty financial help to caring pet owners in Onondaga County with verifiable low incomes. More than half of our pet owners qualify for copays of only $5 per pet!

Why even bother to spay or neuter your pet?

Cats spray . . . both the ladies and the gents. It takes the right product to get rid of the smell. The decent products are not cheap. Mattresses, clothing, furniture and even a child's bookbag can get ruined. They have to be replaced. Landlords and neighbors complain.

Dogs have their issues, too. Females in heat produce a discharge that gets on the furniture, the floor, pretty much wherever they go. Males are driven to find that female in heat. They break out of houses, climb fences, risk fights with other dogs with the same thing in mind. Or they get lost trying - or worse.

It's reported that at least 70% of dog bites are from unneutered males. AND, unneutered male and female dogs are reportedly 2.6 times more likely to bite people or other dogs.

Mating behaviors are totally natural to the animals. BUT, they're not doing it because they'd love to have a sweet little family of their very own to hunker down with. Their hormones drive them.

It's not a lark for the cats and dogs and it's no picnic for their owners and neighbors. We won't even go into how unneutered cats and dogs are begetting an explosion of tragic pet homelessness.

Please call us to see if you're eligible for assistance. We love our pet owners and their pets and all we want to do is help.

Bottom line?

Our world is full pet owners who never realized how seriously important spay and neuter is. You can change that. Won't you please share this?

Thank you!

315-729-8691 🥰

06/11/2026

Please share. 🙏 There are lots of folks new to pet ownership.
And lots of veteran pet owners who'd do anything to protect their pets from heat exhaustion - something that can so easily go unnoticed but quickly turn into deadly heatstroke if untreated. 🔥

‼️ ALL pets are at risk.

‼️ What can cause a pet to develop this life-threatening condition so quickly?
* youth
* old age
* a medical condition
* breed characteristics, especially pets with short muzzles
* over-exhaustion from normal activities
* overexposure to heat and/or humidity

If your pet is sickened by the heat and humidity, seek help immediately.

There are laws to protect pets.

In the City of Syracuse - Office of the Mayor, Adrian's law punishes city pet owners if they leave an animal:
1. tethered outside
2. in extreme temps above 90F below 32F
3. for a period greater than 2 continuous hours.
👉 Violators could be subject to arrest, incarceration and fines up to $500. They also could be placed on the Onondaga County Animal Abuser Registry.
📣 📲 Syracuse Animal Cruelty officers urge people to notify Syracuse Police Department about any dog left outside in inclement weather, whether cold, rain, heat, or weather emergency without proper shelter. You can call Syracuse Police Department's Dog Control number at (315) 442-5346 or their Animal Cruelty line at (315) 442-5336.You can email them as well! [email protected]

📣 📲 Those outside the city should call 911 and the SPCA at 315-454-4479 or your local law enforcement agency.
For ALL COUNTIES and ALL NEW YORK STATE RESIDENTS, NYS Ag and Markets Law 353b deals with dogs left outdoors in inclement weather without appropriate shelter. This state law applies to all municipalities, including Syracuse but does not have a tethering requirement.
State law requires:
1. any person who owns or has custody or control of a dog that is left outdoors provide them with appropriate shelter.
2. The shelter must be a structurally sound housing facility that:
* is insulated
* has a waterproof roof
* is large enough to allow the dog to stand up, lie down, and turn around.
3. There must be a shaded area away from direct sunlight that is accessible at all times.

👉 Violations can trigger a series of escalating fines, which the court can reduce by an amount the owner or custodian proves he or she has spent to correct the deficiencies in the dog's shelter.

If you see a pet in physical distress from heat and humidity,
SAY SOMETHING!

06/11/2026

Can we make spay/neuter as everyday commonplace as waking up and putting on our shoes?

Look at what our incredible fellow spay/neuter advocates at CNY Cat Coalition have been asked to help with in JUST ONE WEEK!

We are here to help, too. Call us at 315-729-8691 if you have a family pet - cat or dog, we help both - who needs a spay or neuter.

And please support local spay/neuter programs like CNY Cat Coalition, Fixing to Help, Spay and Neuter Syracuse, and CNY SNAP!

Your giving and sharing are what stop hundreds of thousands of unwanted litters from being born into a life of suffering and deprivation. You make the difference!

Maybe you've heard of "kitten season," the time of year when it seems like every single unspayed female is pregnant, has kittens, or both. Well, we're already deep into kitten season here in Central New York.

What does that look like? It looks like our volunteers being overwhelmed with people asking for help, with houses full of homeless cats and kittens, with no end in sight.

Be kind to your local rescuers.

Be understanding when they don't have the resources to help right now.

Be part of the solution and make sure ALL of your cats are spayed & neutered.

Be a supporter and make a donation or volunteer—with Cat Coalition or any other rescue/shelter. We're all in this together!

Below is a list of every request for help through our website in the last week. Just one week. And this will only grow throughout the summer.

• Mother and kittens living in a makeshift shelter outside
• 3 feral kittens
• Emaciated adult stray
• 3 feral cats, including a mom with a few kittens and an injured cat
• Feral mom with 5 kittens
• Feral or skittish stray older kitten
• Pregnant feral cat
• Newborn kitten found alone
• 2 young kittens with deceased mother
• Adult cat surrendered by owners due to allergies
• 3 kittens left behind by evicted tenant
• Feral mom with 2 kittens
• 2 adult cats surrendered by owner due to financial circumstances
• Adult cat surrendered by owner due to financial circumstances
• Friendly mom with two newborns
• 2 feral mothers with 4 kittens
• Adult cat surrender because she doesn't get along with other cats
• Adult rescued from hoarding situation
• 2 newborn kittens found without mother
• 2 adults rescued by a good Samaritan when original owner threatened to leave them outside
• Shy mother with 3 kittens outside
• Adult cat whose owner passed away
• Pregnant feral cat
• 3 cats abandoned at a farm
• 4 stray cats, including a pregnant female
• 2 cats abused and abandoned by owner
• Injured stray cat
• 3 stray older kittens
• Feral female plus 3 kittens from last fall and five 6-week-olds
• 3 kittens born to unfixed owned cat
• Feral moms with 3 kittens
• Feral mom with 2 kittens and a feral male
• 5 cats living inside an abandoned house
• Stray with bad eye infection
• Cat living in parking lot of office building
• Friendly kitten found outside
• 2 cats surrendered by owner because he isn't able to continue caring for them
• Friendly stray with fight wounds
• 10-20 cats living in and around a house

06/10/2026

Interesting!

A sign from Cook County, IL.🙂 Just wishing it could be used in all areas of our country.






(Thank you All God's Creatures - Beaumont for this post.❣️)

06/10/2026

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